Your friend and half the Northern hemisphere it seems like.
Contact the uni accomodation service and see what they have or landlords they can recommend. The Glasgow property market is *insane* at the moment (more so than usual) and properties can go on the day they are posted.
Consider looking further afield in places that have good commuting links into Glasgow e.g. Paisley.
Use the search facility here and on r/Scotland as this question gets asked **a lot**. |